Awards and Honors

Engaging, passionate, amazing, genuine, truly outstanding – these are just a few of the adjectives used to describe faculty members receiving Teaching and Advising Awards at the 2023 Cornell Engineering Fall Faculty Reception hosted Sept. 12 in the Statler Ballroom. See the winners and nominating information on the Cornell Engineering news page.

Greeshma Gadikota, associate professor (CEE), received a 2024 WCC Rising Star Award for excellence in the scientific enterprise from the Women Chemists Committee (WCC) of the American Chemical Society.

Britney Schmidt, associate professor (EAS), has been named the 2023 John F Nye Lecturer by the American Geophysical Union. The lecture is presented annually and recognizes recent accomplishments and ability to present exciting scientific research and findings to AGU member scientists outside the Cryosphere section.

Zhiting Tian, associate professor (MAE), has been selected by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) to receive a 2023 Young Faculty Award. DARPA will be funding Tian’s research proposal titled “Transient, nanoscale temperature mapping of active RF devices.”

Sadaf Sobhani, assistant professor (MAE), has been selected for a 2023 NASA Early Career Faculty Award. NASA will be funding Sobhani’s research proposal titled “Precision Ionic Liquids for Advanced Spacecraft Thermal Management (PLASMa).”

Owolabi Legunsen, assistant professor (CS), received an Intel Rising Star Faculty Award for his work on runtime verification, software testing and the unification of these techniques towards transforming how software quality assurance is done today.

Dmitry Savransky, associate professor (MAE), has been named a senior member of SPIE, the international society of optics and photonics.

Rob Shepherd, associate professor (MAE, Systems), has been chosen for the 2024-26 cohort of the Defense Science Study Group, which introduces outstanding science and engineering professors to the United States’ security challenges.

Timothy Sands, professor of practice (MAE, Systems), has been recognized for the second year in a row with MDPI's Best Paper in Engineering Award for his paper, "Development of Deterministic Artificial Intelligence for Unmanned Underwater Vehicles (UUV)," which was published in the Journal of Marine Science and Engineering.

Yoav Artzi, associate professor (CS, Cornell Tech), and colleagues won one of two Outstanding Demo Paper Awards at the 61st annual meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics for their work, "CB2: Collaborative Natural Language Interaction Research Platform."